West of Life: Life in the Phosphate Hills of Tunisia

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West of Life: Life in the Phosphate Hills of Tunisia

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West of Life is a photo essay by Tunisian photographer Zied Ben Romdhane (b. 1981, Tunisia). His recent work documents life at small Tunisian mining villages.

In Gafsa, a phosphate mining region in the southwest of Tunisia, a state-controlled company called CPG extracts phosphate from the hills.

Mining, an important economic resource to the Tunisian economy, has been practiced since Roman times.

The local mining villages of Redayef, Mettlaoui, Oumm Laarayes, are rich in resources but marginalized by the government. They remain poor and polluted, a conduit for wealth. Meanwhile, coastal towns prosper.

Workers lured from Libya, Morocco, Algeria and around Tunisia live on this nearly uninhabitable land. Ethnic divisions, exacerbated by life in a harsh landscape, have produced disharmony between the people and nature. `

These incompatible parts remain in a state of constant flux and volatility.

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